| ESNE | A domestic slave in Anglo-Saxon times (4) |
| SCOP | A minstrel or poet in Anglo-Saxon times (4) |
| MOOT | Assembly held for debate in Anglo-Saxon times (4) |
| THONG | Word for a shoelace in Anglo-Saxon times, later a strip of leather; a flip-flop sandal; a skimpy pair of underpants; or, a horseradish root (5) |
| TAPER | From the Latin word "papyrus" due to its use as a wick, a candle in Anglo-Saxon times, later a thin waxed spill; or, a gradual narrowing (5) |
| AETHELING | Term used in Anglo-Saxon times to designate a person of noble birth, particularly a member of the royal house of Wessex (9) |
| REEVE | A chief magistrate in Anglo-Saxon times (5) |
| THRYMSA | Cooking - try mash - current in Anglo Saxon times (7) |
| DANEGELD | Tax in Anglo-Saxon times paid to invaders |
| THAMES | River which flows through London - Aristocrats in Anglo-Saxon times (6) |
| DANELAW | In Anglo-Saxon times, the part of England under Scandinavian control (7) |
| WESSEX | Mercia's rival in Anglo-Saxon times (6) |
| SOL | Sun god, back in Anglo-Saxon times (3) |
| ALDERMAN | Nobleman of the highest rank in Anglo-Saxon times (8) |
| THANE | Holder of land granted by the king in Anglo-Saxon times (5) |
| FINN | He fled down the Mississippi with a runaway slave, in fiction |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet since Anglo-Saxon times; or, from the 1950s, a slang term for an electric guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz (3) |
| EMPTY | Word for leisure in Anglo-Saxon times that later came to mean blank, hollow, hungry, vacant or void (5) |
| FRESH | Word for "unsalted" in Anglo Saxon times, later ardent, brisk, cheeky, cool, new, raw, recent or unpreserved (5) |
| OLAN | Slave in "The Good Earth" |
